Agatha Christie
The Mousetrap
★★★☆☆ Sturdy nostalgia:
There may be nothing new in the latest touring version of the institution that is Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, but the production gives its large audiences exactly what they are looking for.
Agatha Christie’s Black Coffee – Review
It’s ✭✭✭✭✩ classy, classis Christie as the The Agatha Christie Theatre Company return to the King’s with the Queen of Crime’s only play to feature Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, says Martin Gray.
Review – Agatha Christie’s Go Back for Murder
Emigrant Carla Le Marchant is back in the UK from Canada to tie up some business before she weds – who killed her philandering father? The Agatha Christie Theatre Company presents a production of the queen of crime’s classic Go Back For Murder.
Review – The Mousetrap
★★★☆☆ Museum piece:
It’s a plucky little touring production of the Mousetrap that has fetched up at the King’s theatre all this week. As any one of its characters might observe – in Home Counties tones so impeccably clipped that they are positively italicised – “the old gall’s got a lot of go in her yet”.
Review – A Murder is Announced
* * * Church Hill Theatre Review by Thom Dibdin Intimations of a murder are announced with all due deference to plot, twists and true red herrings up at the Church Hill Theatre in EPT’s new production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced. Adapted by Leslie Darbon from Christie’s novel, the play is a […]
Æ Review – Agatha Christie’s The Hollow
★★☆☆☆
There is nothing sleepy about the Hollow to which the Angkatells have retired in this country house weekend murder mystery from the Makars, which is at Adam House until Saturday.